docs/capabilities.md — measured capabilities (2026-11-02)
Metal (laptop, Apple M5 Max)
| Property | Value | How measured |
|---|---|---|
| Device name | Apple M5 Max | MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice().name |
| Unified memory | yes | hasUnifiedMemory |
maxBufferLength |
28 753 MB | property |
recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize |
38 338 MB | property |
maxThreadsPerThreadgroup |
1 024 | property |
threadExecutionWidth (SIMD) |
32 | pipeline state |
| GPU families | Apple1 … Apple10, Metal3 | supportsFamily: |
| Ray tracing / 32-bit float filtering / argument buffers | yes / yes / tier reported | properties |
| FP64 in shaders | no (compiler error "'double' is not supported in Metal") | runtime + offline compile of a double kernel |
| Runtime MSL compile (trivial kernel, cold) | 34.6 ms | newLibraryWithSource: wall-clock |
| Offline toolchain | Apple metal 32023.922, target air64-apple-darwin27.0.0 | installed during audit |
| 1 M-element elementwise square | 0.029 ms GPU time (GPUEndTime − GPUStartTime) |
docs/evidence test program |
Consequences for the design: FP32 everywhere on GPU with compensated (Kahan/Neumaier) and pairwise reductions, FP64 accumulation of sufficient statistics on CPU when the reduction length exceeds a documented threshold, and GPU results always compared to the CPU FP64 reference with method-specific tolerances. "Precision" is reported in every Estimate.
CPU (laptop)
Apple M5 Max 18 cores (6 performance + 12 efficiency), 48 GB; Accelerate BLAS/LAPACK; Apple clang 21 supports C++20 and
-O3 -mcpu=apple-m4 (apple-m5 not yet in clang 21's list; measured flags recorded in the benchmark manifest).
Cluster
See docs/audit.md §3 (22 reachable nodes, Metal 4 on all, GPU cores 10–60, RAM 8–96 GB, most nodes without Homebrew
in the SSH PATH, m2m8b without developer tools). Inter-node SSH works only on LAN IPs (Tailscale ACL); the laptop reaches
nodes by alias.
FinData OS
See docs/audit.md §2 and docs/evidence/findata_openapi_2026-11-02.json. Measured: Arrow IPC page of 1 599 bars
= 246 KB; export of 34 607 rows ready in 1.5 s; dataset versions pinned (ETF 1m = 5162 at audit time).
Software versions (laptop, audit time)
cmake 4.3.2 · Apple clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.4.1.1) · Xcode 27.2 · macOS 27.0 · Python 3.12.13 (venv) · nanobind 3.1.0 ·
numpy 2.5.4 · pyarrow 26.0.0 · arch 8.0.0 · statsmodels 0.15.0 · scipy 1.18.1 · polars 2.1.0 · duckdb 2.0.0 ·
exchange-calendars 4.13.2 · R 4.6.1 · highfrequency 1.0.3 · rugarch 1.5.6 · TeX Live 2026 · latexmk 4.88.
Homebrew C++ packages installed during Phase 0: filled in by scripts/record_environment.sh into
experiments/manifests/environment_laptop.json (versions are read from brew list --versions, never typed by hand).